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Buttons 2. The Sequel. PG

Some great ideas for buttonless tops

To update any new reader, or visitor who needs therapy, or is learning how not to blog, I have problems with my hands. I cannot hold a knife & fork properly or do up shirt buttons etc. So I have scoured the internet and think I have the answer instead of normal shirts. It’s either in this slideshow, or you can email ralph.whillier@gmail.com with a picture of something better, which I will add to this post.

Hi Elizabeth 😀 LOL.
If I do go for the cheeseburger you may relish it as I would be in a right pickle 😉
Superhero ?? Big problem. There are no telephone boxes for me to take a spin in around here 😉
Big hug my friend. You are fun !! Ralph xox 😀

Hi Julita 😀 This post should be right up your street. You know. Fashion or the lack of it 😉 I’ll have to find a friend to knock me up that photogenic smock !!
Uh oh. I am going to be hospital sucked next Monday. Thanks for preparing me for what is about to come.Hugs. Ralph xox 😀

Hahaha…………I laughed all the time for all these fabulous clothes for to help you to dress without any problems of little buttons ! I think the Ralph Elf will be fine but don’t put on the one with the heavy metal, you may get hurt 🙂 ! Hope for you that the strength in your hands and fingers will increase and that you will be able as before to manage them normally 🙂 ! Have a beautiful day Ralph and a warm embrace from Italy – Sérachshiro ❤

LOL> Thank you for your lovely comment Serach. I shall take into consideration what you have said about the clothes and my hands are in my young doctor’s hands (metaphorically speaking). Have a lovely Friday my friend. Ralph xox 😀

Hi Celeste 😀 Your photos are now in the main body of this post. You need to read the summary of:https://bluefishway.com/2013/10/04/image-in-a-comment-the-recipe/
on how to place a picture in YOUR OWN blog comments. You cannot put pictures in other blogger’s comments.
I have also tidied up your comments here. I should put you over my knee 😉 hehe
Never mind we all have to learn……sometimes the hard way. Ralph xox 😀

Hi Ralph,
Thanks for visiting my blog. I had a lot of fun with yours. Your ideas are like a bright morning when you sip your coffee in front of the window and you can’t wait for your day to start.
Take care,
Camelia

Good morning MVBFM 😀 Saving the world possibly, but saving damsels in distress definitely 😀 I agree with you that metal can be cold. Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey……..not what you think !! Read this ……
” In the heyday of sailing ships, all war ships and many freighters
carried iron cannons. Those cannon fired round iron cannon balls. It was
necessary to keep a good supply near the cannon. But how to prevent them
from rolling about the deck?
The best storage method devised was a square based pyramid with one
ball on top, resting on four resting on nine which rested on sixteen.
Thus, a supply of thirty cannon balls could be stacked in a small area
right next to the cannon.
There was only one problem — how to prevent the bottom layer from
sliding/rolling from under the others. The solution was a metal plate
called a “Monkey” with sixteen round indentations. But, if this plate
was made of iron, the iron balls would quickly rust to it. The solution
to the rusting problem was to make “Brass Monkeys.”
Few landlubbers realize that brass contracts much more and much
faster than iron when chilled. Consequently, when the temperature dropped
too far, the brass indentations would shrink so much that the iron cannon
balls would come right off the monkey. Thus, it was quite literally,
“Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey!”
(And all this time, you thought that was a dirty expression, didn’t you?)”
Big hug. Ralph xox 😀

Hello again Afsheen 😀 I am still here !! Way behind with my blogging again as usual. I am at the start of another month or so of tests and treatment. I’ll be writing a post soon about it. And how are you and your family my friend ? Ralph xox 😀

Hi LB 😀 I wish it was !! 21degC on Sunday. 12degC today. Roll on summer. I daren’t ask where you are, as I am sure between writing a response and posting it, you will have moved from Mexico to Hawaii. Love your blog. Ralph xox 😀

If only. I’m in the cold and rainy northwestern USA. Not as bad as being in the midwest or northeast I suppose. Sweaters or sweatshirts are daily wear around here though, and no buttons required on the pullover sort.

Hi Mary 😀 Hehe. No burger place here as I live in the mountains between “nowhere” and “where the heck am I” The locals would probably eat me if I wore that !! 😉 Have a lovely week my friend. Ralph xox 😀

First of all I want to say superb blog! I had a quick question
in which I’d like to ask if you do not mind. I was curious to find out how you center yourself and
clear your head prior to writing. I have had a difficult time clearing my
mind in getting my thoughts out. I truly do take pleasure
in writing but it just seems like the first 10 to 15 minutes are generally lost simply just trying to figure out how to begin.
Any recommendations or tips? Cheers!

Everyone is different. Some have notebooks. Others have many drafts in progress. And more rewrite and rewrite.

Many have themes, poetry, photos, reblogs etc. My blog is more of a cross between my personal life and a magazine.

On a personal view I never plan to write a post. In fact I often have no idea and then something triggers a post, a comment, an email, a trip to the coast…..whatever, and I never open a new post until I have the basic idea firmly in my head. And usually a draft develops as it goes along. I try to keep the post raw by changing nothing except typos.

Some comments I can’t answer straight away as sometimes it needs a bit of thought.

Now that I have broken my arm you really have my sympathy on not being able to wear what you want. My current shirt wardrobe consists mainly of shirts that are too big for me with large open necklines, wide sleeve openings, and short sleeves even though the weather is cold.

Sorry to hear about your broken arm. I hope you get back to normal usage of it soon. The treatment I’ve had so far has not cured my doing up buttons. She is going with a more aggressive treatment next time…….oh boy !! Ralph xox 😀

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